LEARN LISA’S LESSONS

LISA ROBERTSON IS A TWO-TERM PRESIDENT OF LINDEN FOUNDATION
SECONDARY SCHOOL PARENT TEACHERS’ ASSOCIATION (PTA).
She is fearless, outspoken and entrepreneurial.
But her maternal instincts often overshadow these.
And her motherly receptor organs have detected something unusual in the atmosphere among
officials tasked with responsibilities to protect Upper Demerara/Berbice (Region Ten) residents
against the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
“It seems as if they want to hide something, that is how they operate. The cockiness in them is
what I can’t understand. If you understand protocol, and if you observe all protocol, you
wouldn’t condone being cocky with parents,” she told www.aroundtheregions.com.
SOMETHING TO HIDE! Whatever that is, isn’t lost on Robertson only. The well-kept secret
among the authorities, Robertson insists, must be blamed for the cavalier attitude among the
bauxite mining’s 39,450 residents, including the vulnerable school population.
“One of my concerns within the schools is that you (still) see children…up close and personal
without a mask on. Whenever I visit those schools, I would have those encounters and I would
come home and tell him (her son) again be careful of the crowd you’re in; stay out of crowds,
keep your distance and just maintain the COVID regulations to be safe,” the PTA President said.
Robertson is imploring all parents in Region Ten to take personal responsibility for sensitising
their children on the deadly nature of the infectious virus which has killed 327 Guyanese since it
was discovered in Wuhan, China late in 2019.

“I would usually educate my son on the issue regularly…to follow all of the COVID 19
guidelines. That is the most that I can do as a parent. My concerns nevertheless are who he talks
and interacts with in school. There are certain things that parents need to know that they cannot
do in the absence of their children,’ she stressed.
Nevertheless, regardless how ‘bad’ publicly-available information is poor examples displayed by
public figures, citizens, especially parents, have a right to know so they can make more informed
decisions Robertson insists.
“With the current numbers of both infections and deaths, it should be a wakeup call for us
all,” the mother of two warned.